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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

Guy de Maupassant

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Breathe Death Drink Live Oneself Sleep
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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Astonishment Death Government People Right
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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Art Boredom Conversation Fascinate Interest
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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English Flavor Food
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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Admire Beautiful Blood Eyes Love Man Soul Time
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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Eyes Memories Object Ourselves People
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Difficult Genius Simplicity Woman Wonderful

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

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